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variably, and more productively than non-creative minds the outcomes of
the Ariely study could easily have been predicted without the study having
been made.
This, in turn, raised the question as to why then was the study made? Was it
intended only as a form of a common-place replication or was it, after all, an
excuse to discredit the behavior of creative thinkers and to encourage a form
of back-lash to inhibit projected changes in the status quo? If the latter it
might explain why it appears that the anti-creative forces, in the guise of
“creativity experts” such as Mark Runko, of the Torrance Center at the
University of Georgia, urge that the creative mind be trained in discretionand why Amabile, of Harvard University School of Business urges the
acceptance of “cooperation” as a virtue in creative production when she
should know that the nature of the truly creative mind is to work alone, and
certainly, and additionally, that “cooperation” implies negotiation,
compromise and acquiescence to the ideas of others...all of which would
diminish the probable creativity of the product. To say nothing of this making
“common” whatever achievement there might be. to say nothing about the
recommendation that one be polite, that is, “discrete”, cooperative and, if
you really want to be a member of the group, it is O.K. to cheat in order to
achieve your aims. In other word, lie, dissemble and kick the other guy while
he’s down for success is success is success....isn’t it?..and that is the final
measure!
Well if ballet dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alexander Godunov, andNatalia Marakova under the Soviet regime can dance their way to
excellence a few creative minds might be able to identify escape passages
from this current effort at repression.,, ? What valuable consciousness this
present situation does bring to the fore is what appears to be a fundamental
difference between the creative mind which pays attention to its own
business and thus is probably apolitical, and the non-creative mind which
pays attention to everyone else’s business and is VERY political.
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It used to be that such mass-mind shifting propaganda was reserved for the
rather mindless ingestion of those who bought the publications of yellow-
sheeted journalism But Ms. Melina cannot be considered “at fault” because
she writes what she is told to write and is paid to write, but who, if any, have
called the readers’ attention to the fact that creative thinkers can play games
as well as non-creative thinkers and can, when called upon, shift their
imagination gears to fit the circumstances.
It should, in all honesty, be additionally noted that playing games is not the
area in which creative thinking has generally been analyzed, but the effort
here, by these researchers, seems to be to discredit the moral structure of
creative thinkers whereas my research (THE PERCEPTIVE AND SILENCED
MINORITIES, 1970) indicates quite the opposite that the creative thinker,
when involved does not lie, misdirect, or accept false evidence but he and his
efforts get put down, down-graded and ostracised all because his perception
differ from those of the consensus.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/1026587/THE-PERCEPTIVE-AND-SILENCED-MINORITIES